Independent Cryptic #10846

2021-07-17

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Across

1a

Lusty pics nonce cut out (12)

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10a

Grasps one dumped in ditch in terrible condition? (9)

11a

Turn page, interrupting trick (5)

12a

Fellow rep offering blood products (7)

14a

City bar rejected personal-hygiene equipment (7)

16a

Appetiser containing a mostly whitish flour (9)

18a

First to join ends of optical nerve fibre (5)

19a

Align compass and sail along (5)

20a

Prima ballerina assoluta about to follow movie symbol for text? (9)

21a

Incompetent fusion of Japanese and short musical dramas (2-5)

22a

Vulgarian charge overturned prior to brief rendezvous (7)

23a

Cardinal quits after getting back to front (5)

25a

Man turning something that won't come free without power tool (4,5)

27a

Slender leak causing squeak (6,6)

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Down

2d

Endlessly humble wiseacre (3)

3d

Switched mail order with inferior packaging that's made of recycled waste (7,4)

4d

Exercises help us to get money (5)

5d

Throw up after meat, so outwardly chaotic (9)

6d

Twiddle one's thumbs when ending letter (3)

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7d

A number failed to stop the try when playing English (6-5)

8d

Number-one cognitive quality (4-9)

9d

Gossips in unruly rabble spout nonsense for circulating (13)

13d

Groomed families welcoming European asylum (5-6)

15d

Toxic pro hit out, loosening up when shaken? (11)

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17d

Synthetic tongue person ate anyhow (9)

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22d

Spring frost after 2nd of April (5)

24d

And not the last sightings of Captain Horatio Hornblower (3)

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26d

Shag and doze off (3)